Hi all, Please ignore my earlier mail. I seem to have solved it. I need to run the biomart's "perl bin/configure.pl -r conf/registryURLPointer.xml" command _after_ mod_perl's installation.
Allan. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Allan Kamau <kamaual...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have installed httpd 2.2.14 and mod_perl-2.0.4 from source. When I > run httpd and instruct it to use a user defined httpd.conf file it > raises the "Invalid command 'PerlOptions' error (Biomart's httpd.conf > file) > > Below are the details of how I build both the http-2.2.14 and > mod_perl-2.0.4 software and a clip of my configuration file. > > > #inflate httpd-2.2.4.tar.bz2 and navigate to the newly inflated directory > date;time ./configure > --prefix=/var/biomart/biomart_0.7/httpd/httpd-2.2.14 --enable-deflate > --enable-rewrite --enable-so;date; > make;make install; > > #inflate mod_perl-2.0.4 and navigate to the newly inflated directory > date;time perl Makefile.PL > PREFIX=/var/biomart/biomart_0.7/httpd/httpd-2.2.14 > MP_APXS="/var/biomart/biomart_0.7/httpd/httpd-2.2.14/bin/apxs";date; > make;make install; > > > > my user defined httpd.conf contains the directive below > > ScriptAlias /biomart/martsoap > "/var/biomart/biomart_0.7/biomart-perl/cgi-bin/martsoap" > <Location /biomart/martsoap> > AllowOverride None > Options None > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > > Options +ExecCGI > PerlOptions +ParseHeaders > </Location> > > > > > Could it be that I have not installed mod_perl correctly. >